Betty+Hines


 * SUMMARY: Betty Hines, age 21, died July 19, 1971 after an abortion performed by Dr. A. Mitchell at Doctor's Hospital in Los Angeles, CA.**

Betty G. Hines, a native of Tennessee, was 21 years old when she was checked into Doctors Hospital in California for a [|safe, legal abortion] to be performed by Dr. A. Mitchell on July 19, 1971. Mitchell had been her physician for three or four years.

Betty was eight weeks pregnant. There didn't seem to be anything wrong during the procedure. Betty was transferred to the recovery room, when she suddenly went into cardio-respiratory arrest.

Mitchell theorized that perhaps Betty had died because of a bad vial of Inovar, because the next patient who was injected from that vial also went into cardiac arrest but was successfully resuscitated.

Betty's autopsy, however, found no trace of Inovar in her system. A toxicology check was also done on the vial of medication, and found nothing wrong with the Inovar.

Betty's death was attributed to massive intravascular sickling due to underlying sickle cell disorder.

Other women who died of sickle cell crisis triggered by abortion include @Margaret Davis and @Barbara Hoppert.

As you can see from the graph below, abortion deaths were falling dramatically before legalization. This steep fall had been in place for decades. To argue that legalization lowered abortion mortality simply isn't supported by the data.



Sources: Los Angeles County Medical ExaminerÂ’s Report # 71-7752

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